Muhammad Rais

Muhammad Rais was a Jemaah Islamiyah member who was the brother-in-law of Mat Top and one of the men behind the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing.

Biography
Muhammad Rais was born in Indonesia, and he attended the al-Mukmin Islamic School of Abu Bakar Bashir. Rais was radicalized at the school, and he joined Jemaah Islamiyah and al-Qaeda, relaying mesages from Bashir to Osama Bin Laden. In 2003, he carried explosives from Sumatra to West Java so that his best friend from boarding school, Asmar Latin Sani, could use them in a suicide bombing against the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. Rais was arrested in July 2003, but on 5 August 2003, the bombing occurred either way. Rais was sentenced to seven years in prison due to his role in teh bombing/